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10/11/2010

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For a more or less realtime report from TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin, check my twitter account: @dmstork

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26/10/2010

Attending Tech-Ed 2010 in Berlin!

Tech-Ed 2010 is just a week and a half away. Everything is booked and payed for thanks to my employer OGD, sessions are scheduled, I received my ticket per email today, checked and rechecked my passport. etc. etc. Also I’ve already planned my sessions, mostly Exchange and some Lync sessions. Depending internet access and batterylife, I will try to twitter...

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18/10/2010

Centrally administered Calendar sharing in Exchange 2010

Sometimes it is needed to fully provision a mailbox with all the correct settings and permissions the user needs. For instance, it can be necessary to share your calendar with everyone in your department and vice versa. Normally you would be dependent on everyone to share their calendar. Quite troublesome This issue can be easily addressed by using the *-MailboxFolderPermission...

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14/10/2010

Outlook 2010 Standard does not support Personal Archive

This week a colleague of mine asked me whether Office 2010 Standard supports the Personal Archiving functionality of Exchange 2010. I assumed it did, but he provided me with some Microsoft information that stated otherwise. At minimum the Professional Edition is needed. I couldn’t find any other piece of collaborating evidence or just confusing information (looks like Marketing is confused...

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22/04/2010

Office 2010 RTM and available on Technet

There was some confusion when Office 2010 would be available on Technet and such. Well, I’m downloading it now [:D] Microsoft Office 2010 released to manufacturing (RTM) Office 2010 RTM W00t!

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16/03/2010

Mail enabled Public Folder Recipient not found

Edit 6th may 2010: Similar issue with same solution is confirmed and will be patched by Microsoft. See here. Recently I transitioned an Exchange 2003 Server to Exchange 2010. For the client redirection, I mostly wait two week before decommissioning the old Exchange server. Mailboxes, mail flow, remote access and the default Public Folder are all transitioned to the new...

Exchange/Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 Comments: 0

17/02/2010

Mailbox Replication Service unexpectedly quits when moving mailboxes from other Exchange server

I’ve just completed a transition from Exchange 2003 directly to Exchange 2010. This is a supported scenario, but I did ran into some trouble. Luckily, I also have a solution. Scenario The installation of the Exchange 2010 server and upgrading of several items of the Exchange 2003 environment went without any hick-ups. The project was actually ahead of schedule and...

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17/02/2010

Integrated Authentication with Firefox and Exchange 2010

With the Exchange 2010 Outlook Web App or OWA, it is possible to use Firefox to access your mailbox. Yes, this was always possible but the premium features were only available for Internet Explorer users. As of now, I could only detect one small difference between Firefox and IE namely the S/MIME functionality. Most users or even admins probably don’t...

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04/11/2009

Exchange 2007 will be supported on Windows 2008 R2!!!

Just read an update in which the Exchange Team announces support for Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2! I’m very very glad that they will make this possible. When it became clear that R2 would not support Exchange 2007 installations, I was very surprised and a bit disappointed. But I’m happy to see that Microsoft is willing to listen...

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28/10/2009

The Road to Exchange 2010: Active Directory and Exchange Part 3

In part 1 we’ve discussed the Exchange Mode, Domain Controllers and Schema Master compatibility. In part 2 we’ve discussed the Global Catalog and the Domain and Forest Functional level up to Windows 2008. So, that leaves us with Windows Server 2008 R2. During the time it took to write this series of blogs a lot more information was made available....

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09/10/2009

Exchange 2010 Code complete!!!

Yesterday I was at the Technet Live event in The Hague (Netherlands). I understand they wanted to make an announcement on the availability of Exchange 2010, but instead advised to keep monitoring the EHLO blog of the Microsoft Exchange team the following day. But on my travel home I already received a blog update: Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and...

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28/09/2009

The Road to Exchange 2010: Active Directory and Exchange Part 2

In part 1 of this series, I discussed the requirements of Exchange Mode, Domain Controllers and the Schema Master in combination of various versions of Exchange. In this post I will discuss the placement of Global Catalogs (GC), the Domain Functional Level (DFL) and Forest Functional level (FFL) required. In part 3 I will discuss the compatibility of Exchange with...

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27/08/2009

The Road to Exchange 2010: Active Directory and Exchange Part 1

*** edit: updated 28/9/2009 with corrections of some errors/typo’s and added compatibility matrices In my post The Road to Exchange 2010: Migration paths I’ve discussed about the different possible migration transition paths to Exchange Server 2010. Primarily which Exchange version can be installed on which version of Windows Server and which co-existing Exchange versions are possible. In this post I...

Active Directory/Exchange/Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 Comment: 1

25/08/2009

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 downloadable

As of now, Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 is downloadable. Direct link Release notes can be downloaded here. Two main reasons for me to download and install it: Added Exchange Database backup capabilities with Server Backup on Windows Server 2008 Requirement for co-exsistence with Exchange Server 2010 So, now you can transition your Exchange 2007 environment to Exchange 2010...

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23/08/2009

The Road to Exchange 2010: Migration paths

Exchange always had a specific combination of operating systems on which it could be installed. Now with the release of Exchange 2010 RC1,Windows Server 2008 R2 and the imminent Exchange 2007 Service Pack, it has become clear how the future will look like. Below is a table which visually shows the compatibilities: So unfortunately, Exchange 2007 will not run on...

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